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|image=BluewhaleNOAA.jpg
|image=BluewhaleNOAA.jpg
|caption=
|caption=
|superkingdom=
|superkingdom=Eukaryota
|kingdom= Animalia
|kingdom= Animalia
|subkingdom=
|subkingdom= Metazoa
|superphylum=
|superphylum= Deuterostomia
|phylum=Chordata
|phylum=Chordata
|subphylum=
|subphylum= Vertebrata
|infraphylum=
|infraphylum=
|microphylum=
|microphylum=
|division=
|division=
|subdivision=
|subdivision=
|superclass=
|superclass= Gnathostomata
|class=Mammalia
|class=Mammalia
|subclass=
|subclass=Theria
|infraclass=
|infraclass= Eutheria
|superorder=
|superorder= Laurasiatheria
|order=Cetacea
|order=Cetacea
|suborder=
|suborder=Mysticeti
|infraorder=
|infraorder=
|superfamily=
|superfamily=
|sub=
|sub=
|alt=
|alt=
|pop=Between 1,300 to 2,000
|conservation=Endangered
}}
}}
The '''blue whale''' (''Balaenoptera musculus''), also known as the '''sulphur-bottomed whale''' (from its yellow underside - the color coming from a coating of diatoms) or '''Sibbald's rorqual''' (after the [[Scotland|Scottish]] natural historian Robert Sibbald) is, at up to 110 feet in length and nearly 200 tons in weight, the largest animal known to have ever lived.
The '''blue whale''' (''Balaenoptera musculus''), also known as the '''sulphur-bottomed whale''' (from its yellow underside - the color coming from a coating of diatoms) or '''Sibbald's rorqual''' (after the [[Scotland|Scottish]] natural historian Robert Sibbald) is, at up to 110 feet in length and nearly 200 tons in weight, the largest animal known to have ever lived.